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Old 02-04-2015, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
I'd say it's more the fault or blue collar right-wingers voting against their own best interests. Corporations will always try to maximize profits and shareholder wealth because it's their fiduciary responsibility to do so. It is the job of the political system to balance this against societal needs.
Yep. They've bought into the line that;

"What's good for the mine, is good for the miner.".

It wasn't necessarily so a hundred years ago and it isn't necessarily so today.

Dave
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